Sep 12
Violin girls
Friday after work, the weekend before the Mid-Autumn Festival when folks eat these not-so-tasty “moon cakes”, Daryl and I went to Hua Qiang Bei for dinner. I’ve made up my mind – Shenzhen’s best restaurants are in Hua Qiang Bei and range from little hole-in-the-wall places to more upscale ones (though there are no really fancy ones that I know of). So, if I’m looking for good food, this is where I usually go. Most of my colleagues dislike Hua Qiang Bei because it’s so crowded and is known for petty thievery. I find it pretty interesting to visit and just watch (I’ve decided I need to make a few trips down here with a video camera…carefully).
Some big construction just finished in Hua Qiang Bei – some outwardly nice looking apartments, a large electronics store, and an office tower. It makes the place feel a little more approachable by your average foreigner like me, but it’s still pushing the edge for what we’re used to. I am halfway tempted to move down here, but I think the crowds and the noise would eventually drive me crazy.
En route to our restaurant, we came across this impressive display for women’s cosmetics. These sorts of publicity stunts are common in Shenzhen, though this was one of the coolest I’ve seen. We had to stop and take pictures.
They were shredding on Vivaldi’s “Autumn” concerto.
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dang jim. must. must for sure.
I really love going to Hua Qiang Bei each time I visit Shenzhen, thanks Theron for introducing me to this among other interesting places in Shenzhen. I was cool to come upon this live advertisement for makeup, it was really engaging and entertaining. They were very tanlented. Plus the artists were quite attractive which of course is an effective marketing technique world wide, it caught our attention. I thought the cloth flower on the one girls arm was a bit out of place, my guess is that she has a tattoo that the company wanted covered up. Just a hunch.